Article "An AI Pause Is Humanity's Best Bet For Preventing Extinction"
by Otto Barten and Joep Meindertsma
July 20, 2023
Article "The Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk"
Focusing on the prospect of human extinction by AI in the distant future may prevent us from addressing AI’s disruptive dangers to society today.
by Blake Richards, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Guillaume Lajoie and Dhanya Sridhar
July 18, 2023
Artificial Escalation
Jul 17, 2023
This work of fiction seeks to depict key drivers that could result in a global Al catastrophe:
- Accidental conflict escalation at machine speeds;
- Al integrated too deeply into high-stakes functions;
- Humans giving away too much control to Al;
- Humans unable to tell what is real and what is fake, and;
- An arms race that ultimately has only losers.
The good news is, all of these risks can be avoided. This story does not have to be our fate.
Please share this video and learn more at futureoflife.org/project/artificial-escalation
This video has been informed by a 2020 paper from the Stockhold International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI):
Boulanin, Vincent et al. ‘Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk’. sipri.org/publications/2020/other-publications/artificial-intelligence-strategic-stability-and-nuclear-risk
Last edited by Airicist2; 2nd August 2023 at 12:30.
Jason Crawford on progress and risks from AI
Jul 21, 2023
Jason Crawford joins the podcast to discuss the history of progress, the future of economic growth, and the relationship between progress and risks from AI. You can read more about Jason's work at https://rootsofprogress.org
Timestamps:
00:00 Eras of human progress
06:47 Flywheels of progress
17:56 Main causes of progress
21:01 Progress and risk
32:49 Safety as part of progress
45:20 Slowing down specific technologies?
52:29 Four lenses on AI risk
58:48 Analogies causing disagreement
1:00:54 Solutionism about AI
1:10:43 Insurance, subsidies, and bug bounties for AI risk
1:13:24 How is AI different from other technologies?
1:15:54 Future scenarios of economic growth
Article "What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?"
The dehumanizing philosophy of AI is built on a hatred of our animal nature.
by Marina Bolotnikova
September 7, 2023
Last edited by Airicist2; 9th October 2023 at 23:42.
Article "OpenAI forms new team to assess ‘catastrophic risks’ of AI"
OpenAI’s new preparedness team will address the potential dangers associated with AI, including nuclear threats.
by Emma Roth
October 26, 2023
Article "Does AI Pose an Existential Risk to Humanity? Two Sides Square Off"
Yes, say some: The threat of mass destruction from rogue AIs—or bad actors using AI—is real. Others say: Not so fast
November 8, 2023
openai.com/safety/preparedness
Head of Preparedness - Aleksander Madry
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2023 AI Safety Summit, November 1-2, 2023, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Algorithms rule us all - VPRO documentary - 2018
Premiered Oct 27, 2018
Slave to the AlgorithmWhether you get a job or a mortgage, who is released early from prison: algorithms increasingly determine the big decisions in our lives. Algorithms rule us all, algorithms rule everything. Because algorithms are faster and more efficient than people. But do they always make better decisions? And what does a society look like in which we are sent by big data and computer code?
Companies, and increasingly governments too, use algorithms to automate bureaucratic processes. These algorithms, sets of instructions and rules that are fed by big data, unnoticeably determine our lives more and more. For example, the algorithm of Facebook determines which (political) advertisements we see and see large groups of employees in the on-demand economy never even a boss. From an application procedure to a dismissal request they are controlled by an algorithm. Where should they complain if something does not go as it should be?
Legislatives are also emerging in the judiciary. For example, an American prisoner had to sit longer than comparable prisoners because the algorithm, which establishes a risk score, gave him an inexplicably high outcome. And unlike the decisions made by a judge, it turns out to be virtually impossible to challenge the assessment of an algorithm. Recently the British company Cambridge Analytica appeared to have developed models based on large amounts of Facebook data, which could influence the voting behavior of voters. These psychographics show that algorithms can not only steer individual lives but also democracy.
The mathematicians and programmers begin to realize that the algorithms that are among all these automated decision systems are not neutral and may contain errors. Because the smart code may then decide more quickly than people, the results are not only sometimes defective, but sometimes downright dangerous. Should we be blindly guided by the decisions of the algorithm?
2018
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